std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Allocator>::find_first_not_of

	(1)
size_type find_first_not_of( const basic_string& str, size_type pos = 0 ) const;		(until C++11)
size_type find_first_not_of( const basic_string& str, size_type pos = 0 ) const noexcept;		(since C++11)
size_type find_first_not_of( const CharT* s, size_type pos, size_type count ) const;	(2)
size_type find_first_not_of( const CharT* s, size_type pos = 0 ) const;	(3)
	(4)
size_type find_first_not_of( CharT ch, size_type pos = 0 ) const;		(until C++11)
size_type find_first_not_of( CharT ch, size_type pos = 0 ) const noexcept;		(since C++11)
template < class T > size_type find_first_not_of( const T& t, size_type pos = 0 ) const noexcept(/* see below */);	(5)	(since C++17)

Finds the first character equal to none of the characters in the given character sequence. The search considers only the interval [pos, size()). If the character is not present in the interval, npos will be returned.

1) Finds the first character equal to none of characters in str.

2) Finds the first character equal to none of characters in range [s, s+count). This range can include null characters.

3) Finds the first character equal to none of characters in character string pointed to by s. The length of the string is determined by the first null character using Traits::length(s).

4) Finds the first character not equal to ch.

5) Implicitly converts t to a string view sv as if by std::basic_string_view<CharT, Traits> sv = t;, then finds the first character equal to none of characters in sv. This overload only participates in overload resolution if std::is_convertible_v<const T&, std::basic_string_view<CharT, Traits>> is true and std::is_convertible_v<const T&, const CharT*> is false.

In all cases, equality is checked by calling Traits::eq.

Parameters

str	-	string identifying characters to search for
pos	-	position for the seach to start from
count	-	length of character string identifying characters to search for
s	-	pointer to a character string identifying characters to search for
ch	-	character identifying characters to search for
t	-	object (convertible to `std::basic_string_view`) identifying characters to search for

Return value

Position of the found character or npos if no such character is found.

Exceptions

noexcept specification:

noexcept(std::is_nothrow_convertible_v<const T&, std::basic_string_view<CharT, Traits>>)

Defect reports

The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.

DR	Applied to	Behavior as published	Correct behavior
LWG 2946	C++17	`string_view` overload causes ambiguity in some cases	avoided by making it a template

Example

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
 
int main() {
    std::string to_search = "Some data with %MACROS to substitute";
 
    std::cout << "Before: " << to_search << '\n';
 
    auto pos = std::string::npos;
    while ((pos = to_search.find('%')) != std::string::npos) {
        // Permit uppercase letters, lowercase letters and numbers in macro names
        const auto after = to_search.find_first_not_of("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789", pos + 1);
 
        // Now to_search[pos] == '%' and to_search[after] == ' ' (after the 'S')
 
        if(after != std::string::npos)
            to_search.replace(pos, after - pos, "some very nice macros");
    }
 
    std::cout << "After: " << to_search << '\n';
}

Output:

Before: Some data with %MACROS to substitute
After: Some data with some very nice macros to substitute

find	find characters in the string (public member function)
rfind	find the last occurrence of a substring (public member function)
find_first_of	find first occurrence of characters (public member function)
find_last_of	find last occurrence of characters (public member function)
find_last_not_of	find last absence of characters (public member function)